14/07/2019 – od 20h do 23h – Štross, Zagreb
Jez Nelson – BBC radio 3 “…Paolo Angeli is one of jazz’s best-kept secrets. The Sardinian guitarist (of sorts) has the ability to conjure incomparably beautiful multi-layered music, all from just one instrument. Playing a one- of-a-kind guitar/cello/motorised hybrid, Paolo bows, plucks and even provides his own percussion all at the same time without any need for loops. You can hear him (…) in a stunning session performance that combines a heritage in traditional folk melodies, improvised jazz and his unique instrumental techniques”.
Here the streaming version: https://open.spotify.com/album/6uh9ZNqqBVvmO5YlUw224k?si=Ucerjjo1RuunxeEF_5KuaQ
It’s a great release in which Paolo and his extraordinary extended Sardinian guitar, extrapolate outward from tunes by Radiohead. Hard to credit that this is one person and one instrument.
Whatever you want to call it, nobody else is doing it quite like this. Paolo Angeli, the Sardinian sorcerer, manually magics beautiful, multi-layered music from his unique prepared guitar: a hybrid orchestra of an instrument with strings going in all directions, foot-pedal-controlled motorised propellers and hammers to create shimmering drones and bass-lines as he bows, strikes, plucks and strums while producing rhythmic atmospherics by treading on a plastic bag and adjusting tunings on the fly. Electronic effects are utilized but no loops. All is live. With this singular instrument he improvises and composes unclassifiable music, suspended between traditional music of Sardinia, jazz, baroque, post-folk and pre-everything else. He has collaborated with Pat Metheny – for whom he built a guitar – Fred Frith, Hamid Drake, Louis Sclavis, etc.
Here the complete video about his concert in Sesc Consolaçao / Sao Paulo in Brasil on SESC TV :
http://www.instrumentalsescbrasil.org.br/artistas/paolo-angeli/show-em-08-junho-2015
The live at Tiny Desk Concerts NPR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A805D9CVAr0
Here Paolo playing at RAI Italian national TV : http://www.rai.tv/dl/RaiTV/programmi/media/ContentItem-985962ec-f671-475e-aea6-8243b412b177.html
This video would be a teaser about his concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFRdQA3fL50
Bob Boilen (NPR radio) is a big fan of Paolo Angeli too : https://soundcloud.com/pressangeliproductions/npr-radio-bob-boilen-introduce
Pat Metheny think Paolo is one of his favorite musician : https://soundcloud.com/pressangeliproductions/pat-metheny-talking-about
Here couple of review:
Anastasia Tsioulcas NPR music
…Speaking of punk and jazz, there’s Paolo Angeli. Sardinia’s madly imaginative master of the guitar — albeit a fabulously souped-up guitar of his own invention — veers, in dreamy and almost stream-of-consciousness kind of way, between the traditional music of his island homeland, improvisational jazz and punk with a palette of super-saturated colors and amazing textures”.
Jez Nelson – BBC radio 3 “…Paolo Angeli is one of jazz’s best-kept secrets. The Sardinian guitarist (of sorts) has the ability to conjure incomparably beautiful multi-layered music, all from just one instrument. Playing a one- of-a-kind guitar/cello/motorised hybrid, Paolo bows, plucks and even provides his own percussion all at the same time without any need for loops. You can hear him (…) in a stunning session performance that combines a heritage in traditional folk melodies, improvised jazz and his unique instrumental techniques”.
Stewart Lee – The Sunday Times “…Paolo Angeli has enhanced mechanically a giant Sardinian guitar. Tibi’s accompanying DVD shows how the whole album was recorded live in real time, Angeli as one with the motor- driven wheels, pulleys and springs attached to the body of his instrument. The gorgeous tonal hints of Angeli’s compositions, the soaring quality of the massed buzzing strings, the percussive fusillades, the pizzicato butterfly flutters, the discreet nods towards both European folk motifs and rock-guitar noise, all aim directly for the heart and the gut. Solo adapted giant Sardinian guitar is album of the year…”
John Fordham – The Guardian “…the remarkable effects guitar of Sardinian Paolo Angeli, suggesting everything from African drumming or Moroccan castanets to fiddle solos, offered a compelling overtures to the London Jazz Festival on a live opening-night broadcast on Radio 3”
Arthur Nestrovsky – Folha de S.Paulo “…Só a chance de ouvir um instrumento como a guitarra sardenha (processada) de Paolo Angeli já valeria uma viagem ao Mediterrâneo. Mescla de violão e violoncelo, com uma cabeleira de fios elétricos escorrendo pelo chão, ela é tocada alternadamente com os dedos ou com arco e produz sons que vão da previsível corda tangida a estranhos lamentos, mugidos e percussões, de contundência ao mesmo tempo arcaica e atual…”
Sam Prestianni – SF WEEKLY “…Paolo Angeli musical innovation starts with adapting the instrument. In this case, it’s the acoustic guitar of the artist’s native Sardinia (…) But this quasi-exotic sound was insufficient to meet the needs of Angeli’s avant-garde vision (…) This homespun contraption looks like two lutes waltzing with a toolbox, but with it Angeli performs some of the 21st century’s most inventive — yet listenable — music for “extended technique.”
Please take time to check Paolo’s web site about sounds and videos: www.paoloangeli.com